Roman Letters

Letter 40

Nilus of Ancyra→Marion|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
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To Marion the silversmith [ἀργυροκόπος, a worker in silver].

Since you boldly keep upon your lips oaths more numerous than your [ordinary] words, you ought to be ashamed.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

Πλείονας τῶν λόγων τοὺς ὅρκους τολμηρῶς ἐπὶ στόματος ἔχων, ἐντρέποιο.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: project source import

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